Stevens Creek Campground
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- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- Sites
- 5554 of them walk-up
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 7 notices
In the agency’s own words
Stevens Creek Campground lies on the north shore at the eastern end of Blue Mesa Reservoir. This is the closest campground to the town of Gunnison, CO. Popular with boaters, Stevens Creek has easy access to the reservoir. It is very sunny and bright, and the scent of sagebrush adds to the camping experience. A bit downstream is the Morrow Point Reservoir and the Crystal Reservoir, both surrounded by the steep cliffs of the Black Canyon. Keep reading
Recreation
Stand up paddleboarding, fishing, canoeing and other water sports are popular here. Bird Watching is rewarding throughout the park but especially so in this shallower end of the reservoir which is ideal for waterfowl. Hikers, try the 1.5 mile (2.4) Neversink Trail, which meanders along the Gunnison River upstream of Blue Mesa Reservoir. Check the park's Hiking web page for more information.
Facilities
The 53-site campground offers waterfront-sites and a wide variety of amenities including a picnic area, self pay station and drinking water available late-May to mid-September.
Natural Features
The campground sits at an elevation of 7,540 feet (2298 m) and is characterized by a semi-arid, treeless shrubland. The mesa landscape is covered with sagebrush and receives less than 12 inches (30 cm) of rain each year.
Nearby Attractions
Head into Gunnison for a meal, a bit of shopping, or a visit to the local park or museum. Gunnison is known for its western ambiance and small town friendliness. Mountain biking and hiking can be found at Hartman Rocks Trail just south of Gunnison.
Charges & Cancellations
This is a Scan and Pay campground. There are no refunds,changes, cancellations, or other fee changes allowed with Scan and Pay payments. This system is the same as putting cash into a fee tube and cannot be refunded.
What the agency tells you
Stevens Creek Campground has no electric hookups.
Upon arrival to the boat ramp and before launching, all watercraft will be inspected and certified Zebra and Quagga Mussel free. Inspection stations are located at the Elk Creek and Lake Fork boat ramps during peak seasons (May through October). The boat ramp and inspection station at Stevens Creek are closed at this time. Visit Curecanti's Boat Ramps web page for more details.
This is a high elevation facility (7540 feet/2298 m). Learn about how to "Take it Easy at Altitude" and more on the parks' Safety web page.
Everything else this campground posts · 4
Quiet Hours are 10:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m..
Cell phone coverage is limited.
The fish cleaning station is open during peak seasons.
STOP THE SPREAD OF INVASIVE SPECIES . Remove plants, seeds, animals, and mud from boots, gear, pets, and vehicles. Clean your gear before entering and leaving the recreation site. Stay on designated roads and trails, and follow local guidelines for firewood . CLEAN, DRAIN, DRY boats and any other recreational equipment that contacts water. Dispose of unwanted bait, worms, fish parts, or other organisms into the trash and not into the environment. For more information visit the National Invasive Species Information Center .
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 55
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 40 ft
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets - year round
- Drinking water
- Yes
Around the campground
- On the water
- Reservoir, River, Creek
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Hunting
- Swimming
- Water sports
- Wildlife viewing
- Tree cover
- 0%
- Night sky · 189th darkest of 522 in CO
- Bortle 2
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 54 of the 55 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.
No availability snapshot inside the last 36 hours, so this page draws nothing rather than ageing a reading into fiction.
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Every line of the receipt · 9
What you actually pay
“This is a Scan and Pay campground. There are no refunds,changes, cancellations, or other fee changes allowed with Scan and Pay payments. This system is the same as putting cash into a fee tube and cannot be refunded.” · this campground’s own terms
Who keeps the booking fee
The agency’s own policy text says the reservation fee and the cancellation processing fee are “retained by the reservation service contractor”, and that a campground concessionaire will decline to refund them because “they did not receive these fees”. Recreation.gov is run under contract by Booz Allen Hamilton. What share of your booking fee the contractor keeps isn’t published in any federal dataset we can read, so we print no number for it. Our reporting on the contract →
How we know this receipt · 5
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · record Aug 23, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
55 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 17 mapped sitesAll 55 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 17 of the 55 sites listed. A site with no reading is unknown, never far.
| A | A01 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 104 ft | 132 ftBlue Mesa Reservoir | 265 ft |
| A | A02 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 92 ft | 126 ftBlue Mesa Reservoir | 199 ft |
| A | A03 | standard nonelectric | ||||
| A | A04 | standard nonelectric | 34 ft | 58 ft | 111 ftBlue Mesa Reservoir | 120 ft |
| A | A05 | standard nonelectric | 34 ft | 73 ft | 185 ftBlue Mesa Reservoir | 59 ft |
| A | A06 | standard nonelectric | 34 ft | 58 ft | 130 ftBlue Mesa Reservoir | 83 ft |
| A | A07 | standard nonelectric | 34 ft | 71 ft | 156 ftBlue Mesa Reservoir | 97 ft |
| A | A08 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 77 ft | 172 ftBlue Mesa Reservoir | 100 ft |
| A | A09 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 71 ft | 109 ftBlue Mesa Reservoir | 147 ft |
| A | A10 | standard nonelectric | 38 ft | |||
| A | A11 | standard nonelectric | 38 ft | |||
| A | A12 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 125 ft | 34 ftBlue Mesa Reservoir | 228 ft |
| A | A13 | standard nonelectric | 38 ft | 64 ft | 148 ftBlue Mesa Reservoir | 105 ft |
| A | A14 | standard nonelectric | 38 ft | 63 ft | 105 ftBlue Mesa Reservoir | 164 ft |
| A | A15 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 72 ft | 237 ftBlue Mesa Reservoir | 75 ft |
| A | A16 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 63 ft | 165 ftBlue Mesa Reservoir | 144 ft |
| A | A17 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 72 ft | 273 ftBlue Mesa Reservoir | 120 ft |
| A | A18 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 82 ft | 252 ftBlue Mesa Reservoir | 157 ft |
| A | A19 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 72 ft | 260 ftBlue Mesa Reservoir | 192 ft |
| A | A20 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 72 ft | 324 ftBlue Mesa Reservoir | 204 ft |
| B | B21 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | |||
| B | B22 | standard nonelectric | 21 ft | |||
| B | B23 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | |||
| B | B24 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | |||
| B | B25 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | |||
| B | B26 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | |||
| B | B27 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | |||
| B | B28 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | |||
| B | B29 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | |||
| B | B30 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | |||
| B | B31 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | |||
| B | B32 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | |||
| B | B33 | standard nonelectric | 21 ft | |||
| B | B34 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | |||
| B | B35 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | |||
| B | B36 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | |||
| B | B37 | standard nonelectric | 28 ft | |||
| B | B38 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | |||
| Loop C | C39 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | |||
| Loop C | C40 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | |||
| Loop C | C41 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | |||
| Loop C | C42 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | |||
| Loop C | C43 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | |||
| Loop C | C44 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | |||
| Loop C | C45 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | |||
| Loop C | C46 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | |||
| Loop C | C47 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | |||
| Loop C | C48 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | |||
| Loop C | C49 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | |||
| Loop C | C50 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | |||
| Loop C | C51 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | |||
| Loop C | C52 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | |||
| Loop C | C53 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | |||
| Loop C | C54 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | |||
| Stevens Creek Scan and Pay | Stevens Creek Campground Scan and Pay | type not stated | 40 ft |
25 of 55 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
East Elk Creek Group Campsite4.1 mi
Elk Creek Campground4.6 mi
Dry Gulch Campground5.0 mi
Red Creek CampgroundGunnison Field Office · 7.4 mi
Red Creek Group SiteGunnison Field Office · 7.8 mi
Gateview CampgroundGunnison Field Office · 11 miStevens Creek campground is located off of US Hwy 50, 12 miles (19 km) west of Gunnison, CO.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Gunnison, CO
Typical weather
Typical October night 27°F, day 60°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night -1°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.
Daily high and lowDays with 0.10 in or more
A normal is the 1991-2020 average for the month, not a forecast: about half of all Julys are colder than the July line. The seven-day forecast above answers the other question.
The land, and who answers for it
who answers for it
Who answers for this land
Stevens Creek Campground is in Colorado’s 3rd congressional district. Its representative, Jeff Hurd (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →